How Many People Are Named Claud?
people named Claud are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 234,099 people in the US has this name
Based on 10,940 babies named Claud in Social Security records from 1880 to 2010, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
350 births
Trend
Last year given
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of CLAUDE.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Claud in English. Counting Claud and these spellings together, about 29,264 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Almost all of the babies given the name Claud (99.6%) were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Claud alive today is about 71 years old, and 79% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 62 and 81 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Claud first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1919, to 350 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2010.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2010
🏆 Rank History
Claud has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #139, in 1885.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #139 (1885) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #359 in the 1920s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Claud alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Claud were born in Texas than in any other state: about 158 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Claud was given 5.7 times as often in Arkansas, 5 times in Oklahoma and 3.5 times in Georgia.
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